WoRMS taxon details

Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839)

217572  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217572)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839) Lay, G. T. ; Bennett, E. T. (1839). Fishes. <em>In: F.W. Beechey (ed.) The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage, comp. from the collections ... to the Pacific and Behring's Straits... in 1825-28. H. G. Bohn, London.</em> Pp. 41-75, Pls. 15-23. [details] 
Description Occurs in sandy areas and seagrass beds of both lagoon and seaward reefs. Feeds on sand-dwelling fishes and crabs and prawns.  
Description Occurs in sandy areas and seagrass beds of both lagoon and seaward reefs. Feeds on sand-dwelling fishes and crabs and prawns. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217572 on 2025-04-27
Date
action
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1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
2020-09-24 14:08:35Z
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Nomenclature

original description (of Sphagebranchus cinctus Tanaka, 1908) Tanaka, S. (1908). Notes on some rare fishes of Japan, with descriptions of two new genera and six new species. <em>Journal of the College of Science. Imperial University, Tokyo.</em> v. 23 (art. 13): 1-24, Pls. 1-2. [details] 

original description (of Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839) Lay, G. T. ; Bennett, E. T. (1839). Fishes. <em>In: F.W. Beechey (ed.) The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage, comp. from the collections ... to the Pacific and Behring's Straits... in 1825-28. H. G. Bohn, London.</em> Pp. 41-75, Pls. 15-23. [details] 

original description (of Machaerenchelys vanderbilti Fowler, 1938) Fowler, H. W. (1938). The fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 2: i-v + 1-349, Pls. 1-12. [details] 

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Occurs in sandy areas and seagrass beds of both lagoon and seaward reefs. Feeds on sand-dwelling fishes and crabs and prawns. [details]
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English saddled snake-eel  [details]
Japanese ソラウミヘビ  [details]